Finally back home in Lisbon after two weeks in Argentina, took the 12th and final flight of the last two months back from Madrid.
If it weren’t for my wife, I’d probably still be planted on my sofa in LA — I’m an ideas guy, I don’t *do* shit.
And yet, it was my idea to go to Argentina and also to drive through the south of the US this summer.
Portugal is a nice place, but they are beholden to the EU, which is up to no good. If things go south, you want to have some outs.
This is essentially the thesis of The Sovereign Individual — that jurisdictions that treat people poorly will lose those people, are while the backlash from the now-powerful ones will be ugly, they will ultimately lose that battle and have to capitulate once people start exiting en masse.
We’re not leaving here imminently, but if it went bad, Buenos Aires is an amazing city, the people are kind and there seems to be a (very tempered) hope that things are turning around, even though they’re struggling as Millei seems to be facing reality rather than printing them into more debt.
Chris Liss
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2024-08-31 10:07:01
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